Talking Logistics

MAY 26, 2023

Last week I was at the SAP Sapphire conference, and this week I was at Manhattan Associates’ Momentum 2023 conference. It’s been a busy two weeks of traveling, learning, and networking. I’ll share my takeaways from both events in upcoming posts. Sneak peak: AI and sustainability were big topics at both.) I’m looking forward to.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 9, 2023

There are just a few suppliers that offer both solutions – E2open, Infor, Kinaxis, One Network, and SAP. Tony Harris, the chief marketing and solutions officer for the SAP Business Network, points out that not all product flows are linear and that multiparty workflows need to be supported. “So,” MSCN and SCP are better together.

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 14, 2023

Linda McKee, the director for global trade services management at SAP, expressed the idea this way, “I don’t think we currently have any real standard global trade scenarios. At SAP their solution is developed by their governance risk and compliance team. Every customer seems to want to manage them differently.”

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OptiProERP

APRIL 9, 2024

Shipping and Logistics Once products pass quality checks, they are prepared for shipping. Integration with shipping carriers and real-time tracking systems enables transparency and accountability throughout the supply chain. See below what their president said about what made them select OptiProERP with SAP Business One.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Bill was a strong advocate of SAP ERP. The warehouse I ran just completed a consolidation of three shipping centers. So, I was always struggling on a daily basis to establish a feasible plan to ship 180 trucks out of 22 doors in a twenty-four-hour operation. He worked with an executive team of Jim, Dave, and Bill.

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Supply Chain Shaman

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The team is waking up to realize SAP APO for supply chain planning is being sunsetted. Worried by the risk of technology obsolescence, the team is looking for a replacement for SAP APO. SAP has given mixed messages on the life of SAP APO in the market.) Their goal is to find a replacement.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 26, 2023

For the largest retailers, short shipping results in fines and penalties. “I’ll The goal was to take data directly out of disparate source data systems including different versions of SAP and different types of supply chain planning, and then quickly assemble a common data model. The change management was difficult.”

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

SAP/HANA is used as their key enterprise application. At the end of the day, when the stores close, the sales are posted to SAP. Further, Solvoyo’s planning is also dependent on the shipment packaging hierarchy – this SKU ships in a carton containing 4 items, or perhaps, the SKU cartons make up a layer on a pallet with 16 items.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Trucking Companies Boost Big-Rig Orders on Rising Shipping Demand (WSJ – sub. Descartes Integrates Transportation Messaging and Customs Filing with SAP®. Apparently, the new surcharges UPS implemented to help smooth out shipping volume this holiday season haven’t worked too well. Walmart is in the same boat.

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The two contract manufacturers also store the finished goods and then do the shipping.”. Mr. We don’t have the ability to very accurately project when we can ship an order.” But they can’t get a firm ship commitment until an order is released from the supply plan into the fulfillment site.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The priority of each pick based on shipping deadlines can compete with travel minimization and also evolves in its level of importance throughout the day. For example, in the morning, we may want to maximize picking density to improve the efficiency of our pickers without much concern about shipping deadlines. Dynamic Slotting.

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Talking Logistics

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

But before I head out, grab your reading glasses and check out the supply chain and logistics news that caught my attention this week: SophiaTX Open Source Platform to Integrate SAP, Blockchain. Shippo raises $20 million to be the Stripe for shipping (Venture Beat). Best Buy launches free shipping during holidays (StarTribune).

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Yes, SAP had inbound ASN’s (advanced ship notices). In one major case in 2017, the Hanjin Shipping company was declared bankrupt by South Korean courts. Or if the ship was in transit, Molex could see the geoposition and the speed of the vessel, and we could clearly tell it wasn’t going to go where it was supposed to go.

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Talking Logistics

JANUARY 12, 2018

HERE expands partnership with SAP to offer location-enhanced business applications. Under that strategy, employees take items from a physical store and ship it to customers, which allows Target to ship orders faster and avoid some costs related to distribution and fulfillment centers. Transplace Names Frank McGuigan as CEO.

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Talking Logistics

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Now, on to this week’s supply chain and logistics news… CMA CGM to acquire NOL, reinforcing its position in global shipping. China Approves Merger of Cosco, China Shipping (WSJ- sub. SAP Launches Enhanced Supply Chain Execution Software for Faster Logistics Planning. billion in cash (pending approval by U.S.,

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Talking Logistics

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Here’s the news that caught my attention this week: Free Shipping Is Going to Cost You More (WSJ – sub. Target Offers Free Holiday Shipping (WSJ – sub. SAP Announces Third Quarter and Nine Months 2014 Results. Amazon raised its free-shipping minimum to $35 from $25 late last year.

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Talking Logistics

JUNE 14, 2022

In the last 20 years, the size of the container ship has doubled – and the largest ships sailing today can haul 24,000 containers (TEU) — equal to the capacity of a freight train 44 miles long. But then again, ships of. When it comes to efficiency, today’s global supply chain has never been better.

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Supply Chain Shaman

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Avoid implementing Aera on top of an existing SAP APO implementation.) More and more cargo shifted to ocean transport until the container imbalances resulted in issues with “rolling the freight” from ship to ship despite confirmed bookings. Dwell times grow as more and more ships sit in the ocean waiting to unload.

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The Logistics of Logistics

JUNE 23, 2022

Its Last Mile Delivery Fulfillment solution is available in the SAP Store. The offering is fully integrated with SAP’s Commerce Cloud, allowing SAP customers to easily access the services of OneRail’s 7.5 Navigating COVID-19 shipping chaos: Finding capacity and servicing the customer. million last-mile drivers.

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Supply Chain Shaman

AUGUST 24, 2020

Like a rocket ship traveling to Mars, a new press release popped into my email each day. I was a Gartner analyst in the period of 2000-2002 when trading exchanges were cool. As a new analyst, I was part of a team studying the evolution of value networks.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

The supply chain team takes and ships orders. Last week, I was with a client that is working with SAP to run their supply chain planning system, SAP APO, on SAP’s HANA platform. In short, I think that it is because we want to please. Commercial teams are paid to sell. The supply chain team with chutzpah has courage.

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ModusLink Corporation

DECEMBER 13, 2022

According to SAP, a 58% decrease in revenue has contributed to additional financing and missed payments across the supply chain. US-based consumers evaluate pricing on every purchase, including considering the shipping costs associated with e-commerce. Container shipping to hit bottom in mid-2023, forecasts HSBC. <[link].

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Talking Logistics

MAY 20, 2016

Amazon is looking to license or acquire technology that could find the most efficient shipping routes and hire fleets of trucks, ships and planes to move sellers’ goods. As part of the initiative, UPS is partnering with SAP to integrate SAP’s supply chain software into the network. It’s a brave new world indeed!

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Talking Logistics

MARCH 18, 2016

Maersk Tankers Claims First Drone Delivery to Ship at Sea ( gCaptain ). Maersk Line to increase Asia-Europe shipping rates by $400 per TEU ( Reuters ). SAP Releases Latest Addition to Fast-Growing Cloud-Based Supply Chain Planning Platform. Shyp’s eBay Integration Now Available in Four Cities ( Fast Company ).

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Enterra Insights

DECEMBER 21, 2023

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Supply Chain Movement

APRIL 20, 2022

Back at the start of the millennium, I was fortunate enough to find myself part of a team empowered to redesign a global CPG company from the ground up, in what was to become the world’s largest SAP implementation. Is it better to delay, part ship or expedite? ? What is the impact on cost if we need to split picking and shipment? ?

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Talking Logistics

JULY 18, 2014

SAP Launches 2.0 Version of SAP® Demand Signal Management Application. Moving on to 3PL news, FedEx was indicted by the Justice Department for shipping packages from illegal online pharmacies despite being warned from U.S. The law of averages always seems to catch up with me. FedEx faces U.S. UPS Enhances U.S.

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Enterra Insights

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Richard Howells, SAP’s Vice President for Solution Management for the Digital Supply Chain, believes blockchain will not only help address complexity but will reduce costs as well. Blockchain has the potential to help enable us to manage and track a ‘digital twin’ of shipping containers across the world.”[2]

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Supply Chain Shaman

MARCH 18, 2018

They are pushing costs back on Mondelez while Dell controls a major part of their channel through their direct ship model. One of their consulting partners incorrectly recommended the use of the optimizer in SAP SNP for tactical planning. Mondelez receivables, controlled largely by retailers, are increasing. I expected humility.

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Roambee

JUNE 27, 2019

Are you using an ERP like SAP in your organization to keep track of your pallets? Do you want to upgrade the Returnable Packaging Module function of your SAP or ERP to support real-time tracking? Learn how you can achieve this by using a hybrid IoT technology platform and APIs.

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Enterra Insights

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Richard Howells ( @howellsrichard ), a supply chain expert with SAP, explains, “With record ‘non-spending,’ and cancelled vacations in 2020, it has been estimated that Americans have stashed away more than $1.5 This year, however, Black Friday may actually look more like traditional Black Fridays with shoppers headed back to physical stores.

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Kinaxis

OCTOBER 17, 2014

Session Title: “Accelerating Vision to Value: Integrating Supply Chain Operations” Avaya has been on a 4 year transformation to create a Best In Class supply chain with industry leading On Time Ship, Inventory Turns, and Expense to Revenue ratio.

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Supply Chain Shaman

DECEMBER 28, 2020

The first in the 1990s was Manugistics, the second in the early 2000s was SAP APO, and now their solution is SAS. The problem is that the manufacturing lines are 125% utilized, and there is an ongoing struggle to produce tonnage, much less ship the right product from the production lines to customers based on orders.

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Supply Chain Matters

JUNE 8, 2022

population with either same day, next or two-day shipping be leveraging the collective resources of all of Walmart’ s online fulfilment assets including direct ship from store. This provider is an SAP SE partner and indicates supporting over 3,000 worldwide installations.

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Supply Chain Shaman

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

After a decade of focus on IT standardization and hard-wiring planning into tight integration with SAP ERP, they are underperforming on growth and margin. As inventories dwindled, labor issues surfaced and shipping issues proliferated, supply chain teams began to accept that the only new normal was disruption. March 2021-August 2021.

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Talking Logistics

JULY 19, 2013

SAP Announces Second Quarter and First Half Results 2013. As I’ve commented in previous postings, if you are a 3PL or transportation company and you’re not involved in cross-border shipping with Mexico, then you are missing out on a growing business opportunity (see Reuters article from December 2012).

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Supply Chain Shaman

OCTOBER 13, 2022

While shipping craziness is abating, the issues and implications of the Russian-Ukrainian war, energy shortages in China and Europe, food instability in Africa, and the global water crisis reverberate as disruption after disruption in the supply chain. Companies relying on planning solutions from ERP expansionists—Infor, Oracle, SAP, etc.—struggle

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